This morning we (the techies as we've become known in creative writing!!) went to visit Richard Wood, Technical demonstrator at the Gate House, to find out what equipment would be available to use in our project. It became apparent after some conversation that we don't have access to the kit we require or the space we'd need for recording a radio drama. I felt we found in richard a sympathetic ear, and we told him our concerns about this module. We feel that to be expected to record a radio drama each at a professional level,which is the only level worth us doing is too much to expect from us - considering we've not had any specific training on the subject! It also seems that we are not expected to produce a recording of any significant quality as the function of the recording is just for the creative wring students to hear their scripts out loud. This doesn't appear to have any value to us as creative media students looking to create quality work that could possibly end up as part of our showreel. There seems to be a gap between creative writing who want to write scripts, PLAR who want to act for radio and us, the Creative media students who seem to be in Limbo. I mentioned some of my concerns to Steve May who said he'd look into them and Richard Wood also said he would speak to the relevant people. I feel slightly better after that rant!!
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